Marshalltown ARL Launches First Fundraiser | News, Sports, Jobs

TR Photo by Sam Stuve Marshalltown Animal Rescue League Director Mikaela Simpson and dog, Tiffany, pose for a photo at the ARL location in Marshalltown. The ARL is organizing its very first fundraiser, “Draws for Paws”, on July 31.

The Marshalltown Animal Rescue League is hosting a new fundraiser on July 31, called “Draw for the paws.”

This is a bar crawl event and has nine participating locations. ARL director Mikaela Simpson said the fundraiser had been in the works for a few months and was created by a committee.

“We have a fundraising committee here at the Animal Rescue League so they just sat down as a group and brainstormed a few ideas,” she said.

Simpson said the ARL has done successful fundraisers in the past, but COVID-19 caused them to change the way they go about fundraising.

Over the past year and a half, COVID-19 has affected different organizations and the way they fundraise. Simpson said the pandemic has led the fundraising committee to think outside the box.

“With COVID, it kind of changed the way we could fundraise. So we wanted a more unique idea, I guess, that we could do for fundraising, ” she said.

So far the public has had a positive response to the fundraiser.

“People are excited, it’s just something new for our city”, Simpson said.

The ARL will see how many people participate this year, so a good target number is targeted for next year.

“So that way we know what to expect in the future”, Simpson said. “It will be easier to set goals once we know what kind of base our audience is. “

Many fundraisers are run by volunteers in one way or another. Simpson said that’s kinda the case for the “Draw for the paws”, Fundraising.

“Our board of directors is the one that sets this up and the board is run entirely by volunteers”, Simpson said. “There are a lot of volunteers helping with this, but it’s pretty well covered. I know a graphic designer came to help us and we had a lot of participants who are willing to donate their time and money to participate in this.

Part of the committee’s planning for the event included communicating with bars that would be interested in helping.

“If someone they heard about said ‘Hey, we would like to be involved in this’ they would call him” Simpson said.

Nine places are participating in the pub crawl:

• The flying elbow

• The 918

• Legend’s sports bar and grill

• Vaughn’s pub

• an old tavern

• a Tannin wine bar and a craft beer

• the Calvin Rockett bar-grill

• a Rumors sports bar and grill

• Capricious social gutter point

Registration is due before Saturday, but it is possible to register after that, but it will cost an additional $ 10. There are two different entry levels, a $ 30 participant level which includes a gray shirt and a $ 50 ultimate donation level which includes a sapphire shirt.

Once the punch card is fully punched, the card can be taken to Wayward Social, 1101 S 6th St., and will serve as the entrance for a prize.

“There were quite a few ideas they had and this was just one of the ones that we thought we could put together fairly quickly and that the community would really appreciate,” Simpson said. “We are really excited and hope it will continue to grow over the next year.”

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